Fusion and advanced-fission developers, utility generation and grid-integration teams, national-laboratory plant-systems groups, and the EPC and owner’s-engineer teams building the next generation of plants.
Our heat source is still changing; we cannot design the plant twice.
HELIA designs the balance of plant heat-source agnostic: an initial run on fission or conventional heat with engineered tie-in taps for the fusion retrofit. Machine physics stays with the machine builder; the plant is ours.
Eighty percent of the plant is conventional engineering nobody is paying attention to.
Heat transport, power conversion, cryogenics, vacuum, tritium and fuel handling, plant electrical and I&C are where trips and outages start. That is the scope we take.
The grid interface and resilience requirements are tightening.
Grid-interface controls, islanding and ride-through, and Cyber-Informed Engineering so critical functions stay available through equipment failures, cyber events and network outages.
We will need operators before we have a plant to train them on.
Porritt Learning tracks for fusion energy and nuclear fundamentals, and the Plant Intelligence shell that becomes the operator environment, so the staff accumulate hours before first heat.
Fission first. Fusion ready.
One control strategy and one tag namespace across the heat-source transition, consequence-driven from the first P&ID, and an operator environment built on the same Plant Intelligence shell that runs conventional facilities today.
A moving heat source
Plant design that cannot wait for the machine.
HELIA balance of plant
Heat-source agnostic, fission first, fusion ready.
Plant systems
Coolant, cryoplant, vacuum, tritium, electrical, I&C.
BoP architecture
How the operating layer outlives the machine.
Collaboration inquiry
From your heat envelope and your site.
HELIA — Fusion Balance of Plant
The plant around the plasma: renders, scope, FAQ.
Power generation BoP
Feedwater, steam or sCO2 cycles, condensate, heat rejection, grid interface.
Cyber-Informed Engineering
Critical functions kept available by design.
Government solutions
SAM.gov registered; DOE, INL, ORNL, ANL, ARPA-E, INFUSE alignment.
Discuss the plant around your machine.
A balance-of-plant architecture review starts from your thermal envelope and your site.
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